The Manster

[StatCat]

Anyone ever see this film? It was a b&w production with a partial Japanese cast but it was filmed in english. It's basically about a reporter who searches for a story while in Japan and meets a mad scientist who poisons him and he eventually becomes a monster with 2 heads after suffering a personality change. Turner Classic Movies (I think that was the channel) ran it once a few weeks back and I do think it is a rarer film. One part before the second head appears features the reporter looking down at his shoulder and seeing an eye pop out (like in Army of Darkness decades later-I believe this is what inspired that scene because it's very similar.)

[Andrew]

Sure have.  Love it when he is running around and the fake head is flopping all over the place.  It did have some racy points for a movie of its time, like the mutating husband cheating on his wife with the evil female assistant.

The end was surprising and makes you wonder how that worked, but I could be reading into it too much.  Maybe it was symbolic.

[Squishy]

The eyeball scene appeared in "It Came From Hollywood," with gigglelicious narration by Gilda Radner.

"The Manster" might just be my favorite "two-headed monster" movie, just edging out "The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant" and "The Thing With Two Heads"...the climactic "split up" is freaking hilarious, as is the "volcano" the mad scientist has set up his lab on top of; and yet, there are some genuinely effective moments.

[Flangepart]

Oh, yeah! Prime Velveeta. Some nice parts, like when the hero is on the other side of a paper screen, talkin' to the evil hottie, while they hot tub...and he starts getting....nasty. Oh, yeah. This one is on my list.

[StatCat]

I like the begining part especially with the monster behind the screen attacking the girl and then blood splashes all over it- cool way to open the movie up.

[lester1/2jr]

I liked it.  kind of stupid title though if you think about it.  Andrew, I don't know if you've covered this before, but don't you think it would be alot easier if you had a baord where you could scroll down and see all the responses (not that I personally get many) rather than opening them all up?  is it a cost thing?

[John]

>don't you think it would be alot easier if you had a baord where you could scroll
>down and see all the responses (not that I personally get many) rather than
>opening them all up?

 Click on Flat View and each topic will have all the replies in one long page. That's the way I prefer it too.

[lester1/2jr]

hahaha now i feel really f**king stupid thanks john.  gee i've only been posting here for like 2 years too!!!

[Cullen]

Flat view is relatively new.

Unless... I've been missing it since I got here...

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Um, yeah.

[Andrew]

I am not certain if that was in the old source code or not.  I would have to pull out the old backup disk and check to find out.  No matter what, I like this new version of Phorum.

[Squishy]

Me use Flat View long time.

[John]

>hahaha now i feel really f**king stupid thanks john. gee i've only been posting
>here for like 2 years too!!!

 Hehe. You'd be amazed at how many simple features I've overlooked in software I've been using forever. :)

>I am not certain if that was in the old source code or not. I would have to pull out
>the old backup disk and check to find out. No matter what, I like this new version

 Flat view has been available as long as I've been posting here, which is several months at least.